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The Comey Indictment.
Don’t look away. “My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn’t imagine ourselves living any other way,” Comey, who denies the allegations, said in an Instagram video. “We will not live on our knees, and you shouldn’t either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and she’s right. But I’m not afraid.” Here’s a view from the BBC on the indictment, and the collapsed independence of our justice system and what’s to come.
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Get inspired. She may not be your perfect policy alignment, but Kat Abughazaleh‬ is 26, in the fight… and also happens to be running for Congress.
If you aren’t following Kat Abughazaleh‬, you need to start. This young activist is showing up daily to protest local ICE abuses in IL, connecting on social the way many of us wish all Dems would and running a campaign for Congress actually focused on people – from using campaign funds to help buy groceries for at-need constituents to funding a school supply drive in her community for kids and families in need.
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A shutdown is coming, if Dems can stomach it.
Months ago, just enough Senate Democrats voted along with Republicans to pass a temporary spending bill to keep the government open temporarily. That bill is about to expire. The House already passed a virtually Republican only supported spending bill to keep giving Trump every ounce of power he is taking. But that won’t work in the Senate. They need 60 votes to avoid the shutdown but Dems are holding for now. House Dems were furious Senate Dems capitulated last time… now, the White House is threatening mass firings if Dems don’t get on board. But this time, there’s a compelling case to shut it down.
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The Epstein controversy isn’t going away. Victims are coming forward with names and their own stories to demand accountability.
Former Republican Nicole Wallace, who famously was Sarah Palin’s Coms person back in the 2008 McCain-Palin campaign before quitting and voting for Obama after seeing Palin up close, has spent the last 10 years commenting on the collapse of the Republican Party. In a new podcast, she has an extraordinary interview with one of the Epstein victims (also on YouTube). Listen for why this story won’t go away, why powerful men (& some women) continue to shield a large group of rich perpetrators whose money flows to both sides of the aisle.
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